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PowerComplete Shipping and Returns:
Due to the nature of our business, www.PowerComplete.com needs to maintain a strict return policy. A return will only be accepted up to the duration and parameters of the manufacturer's warranty for exchange or repair if a product is found to have a manufacturing defect. The end user needs to acquire a Return Authorization from the customer service department at www.PowerComplete.com. The defective product then needs to be shipped in its original packaging to the location provided by the customer service department at www.PowerComplete.com. No return shipments will be accepted by www.PowerComplete.com, or by the manufacturer of the defective product, without the original packaging and Return Authorization.
Please note we are not able to accept returns after 30 days of delivery at your location. Please inspect the goods upon arrival and determine if you wish to retain them before the 30 day time frame expires. In order for a return to be considered it must be initiated before the 31st day after delivery takes place at your location.
Refund Method: You will be refunded in the very same payment method you utilized when placing your original order with us. A refund will occur in that payment method within 4 business days of receiving the goods back at the specific return to location and the goods have been fully inspected by us or the factory.
In some cases the sales department at www.PowerComplete.com may arrange an exchange with the manufacturer for an alternative product. Once it is received in satisfactory condition by the manufacturer, the original product will be refunded, minus a restocking fee up to 25%, and the end user will be billed for the replacement product. The original product must be returned in "As New" condition, in the original packaging and with a Return Authorization provided by the customer service department at www.PowerComplete.com. All returned products must be in original condition and packaging otherwise, additional charges may be applied. We are not able to take returns of products that have been assembled or modified in any way. Certain products cannot be returned because neither we nor our suppliers can take them back, like special custom orders for example. Please call us if you have any questions about if a product can be returned. Any returned item that does not meet all three conditions will be considered the property of the end user; and will be shipped back to the end user at the end user's expense. Additionally, www.PowerComplete.com reserves the right to charge an additional 5% fee on all canceled orders, if the order has already been processed. All software is non-returnable; no exceptions. Please keep in mind that once an order has shipped, it cannot be cancelled. If you refuse an order, it will then fall under our company return policy.
Shipping Policy:
Standard shipping methods offer curbside delivery. For freight shipments (common carrier and other shipments over 70 lbs), shipping includes dock to dock delivery in the USA 48 contiguous states. Lift gate or inside delivery upgrades will possibly incur additional charges, and will be charged to the customer. If "prior notice" or "24 hour notification" is requested on shipments, additional charges may be applied. Please note that some of our products are offered with free shipping promotions, so please be aware that if you return one of these products our actual outbound shipping costs will still be deducted from your return refund amount. If a product arrives damaged, or an error was made, and it cannot be fixed with replacement parts, we will pay to ship the item back to us and send you a replacement. If you decide you do not want parts or a replacement, the item can be returned under our standard RETURN POLICY.
Shipping Overview:
Items which exceed Fedex and UPS's weight and size limitations for ground shipping must be shipped via a commercial freight company. These freight companies normally use a semi truck to deliver to businesses with loading docks and will offer the cheapest rates for this kind of delivery. Freight companies may charge additional fees for "residential delivery", "lift-gate delivery", and "inside delivery".
What is a lift-gate?
A lift-gate is a device used to raise and lower items from ground level to the level of a tractor trailer. Freight companies deliver items on a tractor trailer which is 56 inches above the ground. These trailers are designed to load and unload at a loading dock or with a fork-lift. If your delivery location does not have a loading dock or fork-lift and the item is too heavy to remove from the trailer by hand, then you may need a lift-gate.
Do I need lift-gate delivery?
There are several ways to avoid paying lift-gate delivery costs. If your delivery location has a loading dock or forklift you do not need a lift-gate. If the individual items in your shipment are light enough for you and your friends to remove from the truck you do not need a lift-gate. If you are willing to drive to the closest terminal and take terminal delivery you do not need a lift-gate. Terminal delivery is often a good way to save both lift-gate and residential delivery fees. If none of these options work for you then you will need lift-gate delivery.
How much does lift-gate delivery cost?
The average cost of a lift-gate is $75. PowerComplete ships with several different freight companies depending on the delivery location and the delivery services you request. The best way to find your actual lift-gate cost is to call us for an exact quote of your delivery costs with and without lift-gate delivery
What is Residential Delivery?
Residential delivery is a term and fee used by freight carriers to describe delivery to any address which is not zoned commercial. Usually this is a home, but it could be a church, farm community center, etc. Businesses run from a home are still considered residential. The average residential delivery fee is $75.
Do I need Residential Delivery?
Often you can avoid residential delivery fees by receiving your shipment at a nearby business or office building. If you have a pickup truck capable of hauling your item, we can schedule "terminal delivery" where the item is delivered to the closest trucking terminal and you receive the item there. This is a good way of saving both residential and lift-gate delivery fees.
What is terminal delivery?
Terminal delivery is where the freight company delivers your shipment to their closest freight terminal (usually in the closest urban area) and you receive the shipment at their terminal.
Why would I use terminal delivery?
By accepting your shipment at the terminal you can save residential and lift-gate delivery fees. You can also save high local delivery fees if you live in a remote or hard to reach area.
How does insurance work with freight shipments?
Every freight shipment is insured. But in order to collect the insurance on damaged goods the receiver MUST INSPECT THE SHIPMENT BEFORE SIGNING FOR IT! Legally, when PowerComplete signs the shipment over to the freight company, the freight company owns it. When you receive the item and sign for it, you own it. Therefore it is imperative that you carefully inspect your shipment for any damage. If there is any damage at all you must note the damage on the freight bill. This is the only way you will be compensated for the damage!!
What should I look for when inspecting my shipment ??
A very small amount of freight shipments arrive damaged, but be sure to inspect your item when it arrives. The most common cause of damage is the fork-lift so pay special attention to holes poked in the packaging and to the bottom 18" of the shipment. Inspect the outside of the packaging to look for dents or crushed corners. If you see anything even slightly suspicious carefully remove all packaging and inspect the item. The driver may be impatient but that beats having to settle for a damaged item. Unlike FedEx or UPS, if you sign your Freight bill free of any claims then you have little recourse if you later discover that it is damaged.
Shipping Damages:
Our products shipped factory direct right to your door. They are packaged by the factory to withstand damage during shipping. If a product looks damaged or parts are missing, please contact us. www.PowerComplete.com will make every effort to help you obtain the necessary replacements as quickly as possible.
When it come to truck shipments (shipments other than UPS or FedEx) Even if the package appears only slightly damaged, write "Damaged" on the bill of lading slip when you sign for delivery. This is extremely important to expedite a fast resolution. If the package looks significantly damaged, you may refuse delivery completely and the trucking company will notify us. We can then send a new one right away to your location. If you refuse delivery, please notify us as well. If you accepted the package and find that parts are missing or concealed damaged, please let us know right away and we will ship you the replacement parts at no charge. Time matters since most shipping companies only let us file claims within 48 hours of delivery.
What if my item is damaged?
You have two options. You can note damage on the freight bill and accept the item anyway, or you can refuse the shipment. 99% of freight damage is cosmetic. If you sign the freight bill damaged then the freight company will replace your item, approve reimbursement for parts and repair, or provide compensation depending on the damage to your item. This is often the best option if you need to get your item operational and the damage is cosmetic. If you refuse the shipment it will be returned to us and we will ship a replacement as soon as possible.** This may take some time due to stocking issues and transit times, but this is usually the best option if you shipment is damaged beyond repair. If you accept your shipment in a damaged state it is very important that you call the freight company immediately to schedule an inspection and file the freight claim, you should take good pictures from different angles of the item and the packaging, and you should save all packaging material.
Shipments to residences usually require a lift gate, as most houses do not have high docks. You must request the lift gate when you order the items so that this can be noted on the bill of lading. If it is not noted on the bill of lading and you need the lift gate, there will be a re-delivery charge. Will you need help unloading the items upon delivery? Package handling companies off-load and uncrate for a fee. Otherwise, make sure you have enough people to help unload the items. Or ask for an inside delivery when placing your order.
Do you live where a large tractor-trailer would have difficulty maneuvering? Examples: a half-mile gravel driveway, narrow streets, dead-end streets. Notifying the trucking company of this in advance will prevent extra costs and headaches.
There are several options for a delivery to a difficult location: 1) Meet the tractor-trailer at the end of the street. 2) Pick up the delivery yourself at the freight terminal, which will also save you the residential delivery fee. 3) At the time of order, specify that you will need a small box truck for delivery.
Most trucking companies will deliver a crate only to the curb. It is the customer's responsibility to move the crate into the house or garage. Most companies offer inside delivery for an extra charge. With a little kindness and monetary appreciation, the driver may place the crate closer to the house or garage.
We pack all our products for truck shipment on carrier-approved wood pallets. We ship hundreds of products a year this way, and only a small percentage are damaged in shipment. Our terms of sale are F.O.B. shipping point, meaning that title to these goods passes to you when the carrier receives the goods at our plant. If any part of the shipment is damaged, report the damage immediately to the transportation company during delivery. Here are some tips on how to receive freight shipments:
- DO NOT SIGN FOR THE UNIT WITHOUT THOROUGHLY INSPECTING THE CONTENTS OF EACH DELIVERED CONTAINER. To ensure that your unit has arrived in good condition, we strongly encourage you to open each delivered container and carefully inspect the contents before signing the delivery receipt (Proof of Delivery). By performing this task immediately, you are not only helping us to more quickly determine that your unit arrived undamaged, but it also protects you against any possible product liability claims. Once you sign the delivery receipt, you are certifying that your unit arrived in good condition and that both the shipper (iBuy Stores) and freight company are free of any liability.
- PLEASE KINDLY ASK THE DRIVER TO WAIT FOR YOU WHILE YOU INSPECT THE SHIPMENT. The freight company will not knowingly ship any items that are damaged. They (the freight company) routinely inspect every container before accepting any item to be shipped. Consequently, you should not sign any courier receipt which transfers product liability over to you, until you have first inspected the shipment's contents. A still camera can also be extremely helpful in documenting the shipment's condition upon arrival. Note: If the driver can't wait, you have up to 72 hours to inspect the container's contents and report any damaged items to us (iBuy Stores) to receive replacements parts free of charge.
- IF THE DRIVER WILL WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN FULLY INSPECT THE SHIPMENT, OPEN EACH PACKAGE AND CHECK FOR DAMAGED ITEMS. Check for damage to glass panels and/or shelves, acrylic and/or metal panels, base skirt and/or base, etc. Take pictures of each unusable item. Please make sure not to misplace any inventoried item.
- IF ANY ITEM APPEARS TO BE DAMAGED, HAVE THE DRIVER WRITE "DAMAGED," WITH THEIR INITIALS, ON THE PROOF OF DELIVERY (P.O.D.) FORM. This step is essential to document that you received non-functioning component in a damaged shipment.
- CHECK THE CONDITION OF THE SHRINK WRAP AND WARNING TAPE. If the warning tape (a white plastic tape with red writing stating: "STOP. DO NOT BREAK DOWN PALLET OR WRAP. If tape is broken check contents before signing! GLASS HANDLE WITH CARE!") and/or shrink wrap have been removed and/or damaged, check the shipment's contents immediately, and document the broken and/or damaged item(s) on the Proof of Delivery (P.O.D.) receipt. It is possible the shipment may have been manipulated to conceal damage. Taking accurate photos of this step can help ascertain and document the origins of product damage.
- CHECK AROUND ALL SIDES OF THE SHIPMENT FOR ANY EXTERNAL DAMAGE(S). Check the condition of the pallet (skid) for any abuse during shipment. If there is damage to the pallet, there may potentially be damage to the contents directly resting against the pallet (the bottom). Take pictures of any external damage(s).
- IF A SHIPMENT COMES IN MULTIPLE BOXES/CRATES AND SOME, BUT NOT ALL OF THE PACKAGES ARE COMPLETELY DAMAGED, DO NOT REFUSE THE ENTIRE SHIPMENT – ONLY DECLINE THE DAMAGED CONTAINER(S). If there are four packages on one pallet, and one box has fork lift holes through the center of the package, damaging the items inside, but leaving the other three other boxes completely unharmed, do not refuse the entire shipment. Note: Just because a container's exterior has some holes or perforations, that doesn't necessarily mean that the contents inside are damaged. Our shipping cartons are designed to expertly protect our units and sustain normal shipping wear and tear. So a few exterior bruises do not necessarily mean that the interior contents are damaged. Please inspect every container first, before documenting damaged items. If the items inside the bruised exterior package are indeed damaged, refuse only the container(s) that have unusable parts, and accept the remaining packages that are in good condition.
- NOTE: NEVER WRITE: "SUBJECT TO INSPECTION", "NO VISIBLE DAMAGE", or "DAMAGE TO CRATE/PACKAGING", "POSSIBLE DAMAGE" ON THE P.O.D. The freight company will not accept a damage claim if any of these phrases are written on the P.O.D. form. If you see that any part of the shipment is damaged, please simply write "DAMAGED," then give more detailed information. For example: "DAMAGED – HOLE IN CARDBOARD BOX, CAN HEAR BROKEN GLASS RATTLING."
- MAKE NOTE OF WHICH BOXES WERE REFUSED AND WHICH CONTAINERS WERE RECEIVED IN GOOD CONDITION. Photos may help you document this determination more concretely. Have the DRIVER make note of your damage assessment on the P.O.D. with THEIR INITIALS.
- IF THE DRIVER IS IN A HURRY AND WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO MAKE A THOROUGH SHIPMENT INSPECTION, INITIATE A QUICK VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE CONTAINER'S EXTERIOR CONDITION. Inspect the containers for external damage. If any blemishes are visible to the shipment's exterior, or you can hear something damaged inside (such as broken glass), have the DRIVER write "DAMAGED" with THEIR INITIALS on the P.O.D. and receive the shipment as damaged. Take pictures of any external damages.
- We believe that it is unfair for the driver to manipulate anyone into receiving a shipment that is possibly damaged, without inspection. The freight company is allowed to inspect and/or refuse any shipment for shipping. If the item is damaged, the party responsible for the damage will be held liable. If there is no physical damage to the item(s) inside the package, and only the external packaging was damaged, no claim will be filed and neither party will be needed to be held liable.
- AFTER THE DRIVER HAS LEFT, THE SHIPMENT AND ITS CONTENTS MUST BE FULLY INSPECTED FOR ANY DAMAGES PROMPTLY. A DAMAGE REPORT MUST BE REPORTED TO THE FREIGHT COMPANY AND THE SHIPPER WITHIN 72 HOURS OF DELIVERY. Please do not wait weeks or months to open up your packages. You are only allowed 72 hours to report any product damage. The freight company and the shipper cannot be held liable for any damages reported after this 72-hour window. Once a damage report is filed with the freight company, a damaged claim form will be created by the shipper and forwarded to the freight company, and all damaged parts will be replaced, as needed.
- KEEP ALL ORIGINAL PACKAGING. If you do submit a damage report during the 72-hour window, we advise you to keep all original packaging. Once the damaged claim form is forwarded to the freight company, an inspector will be sent out to personally examine the damaged package and its contents, in order to process the claim properly. If the inspector cannot inspect the packaging, the freight company will claim they are not liable, because it cannot be proven they were responsible for any damage(s).
- DON'T MOVE THE DAMAGED PACKAGE TO ANOTHER LOCATION UNTIL THE CLAIM IS SETTLED. The freight company and shipper cannot be held liable for any damages if the shipment/item is moved to another location after it has been certified to have been delivered in good condition to the correct address.
- CREATE AN INVENTORY OF DAMAGED ITEMS TO INSURE AN ACCURATE REPLACEMENT PART LIST (WITH PHOTOS, IF POSSIBLE). Make sure that an accurate list of broken parts is included in your damage report. This will help ensure that you receive an accurate inventory of replacement parts. Digital photos can visually document which parts are damaged and help expedite your claim for replacement parts in a timely manner.
If these steps above are not followed we may have no ability to obtain credit for the damaged goods you have ordered. The shipment is FULLY insured and it is our job to file the claim and make sure you receive a new and working product. We have no way to file claims if the steps above are not done completely or properly.


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MEG is a construction product that is ideal for architecture and comprises a rigid core combined with a decorative surface consisting of weather-resistant thermosetting resins. Robust, compact and long-lasting, MEG is specifically designed for outdoor application; it is resistant to natural weathering (sunlight and atmospheric agents) providing technical performance that make it suitable to the building sector, where it represents an excellent alternative to traditional materials.
MEG is available in a wide range of decors and can be customised thanks to digital printing technique that allows you to create a resistant wall cladding with a "customised skin", which can also be implemented based on your drawing (graphic perspective) or photograph.
MEG is a high-pressure decorative laminate for external applications, consisting of layers of cellulose fibres impregnated with thermosetting phenolic resins and of one or more surface layers of decorative paper impregnated with thermosetting resins having a special weather protection, all chemically bonded together by a high pressure process as described in the EN 438:2005 – 6 standard.
MEG is mainly used for cladding façades (typically rainscreens) and balconies, as well as for sunscreens, street furniture and outdoor signage.
A rainscreen is a building system that consist in the creation of a cavity with natural ventilation between the load-bearing structure with external insulation and the cladding. MEG panels provide resistance to atmospheric agents (sun, rain, snow, heat, frost, etc.).
Provided that the panels have always to be assembled with the proper air gap on the back side, those must be never mounted too close together: always allow for a degree of clearance by means of an expansion gap, the size of which can be calculated according to the dimensions of the wall covering panels. MEG contracts in low humidity and expands in high humidity environments. To achieve optimum assembly, you should always taking into account "fixed" and "sliding" points having different hole diameters in order to allow the dilatation. The screw must have flat head, never embed, as this will interfere with the expansion of the material. Fixing systems for ventilated façades:
"Visible" fixing on aluminium substructure
"Visible" fixing on wooden substructure
Invisible fixing: split batten on aluminium substructure
Invisible fixing: adhesive on aluminium substructure
Invisible fixing: adhesive on wooden substructure
All the details related to the fixing of the panels are in the dedicated MEG Technical Manual.
Fluctuations in temperature and relative humidity do not affect the physical and mechanical properties of MEG.
Before use, it is recommended to store the panels in a well-supported and ventilated position in order to allow acclimatisation and prevent any deformation.
The particular compactness of MEG ensures an optimal combination of mechanical characteristics such as flexural and tensile strength, compression and impact resistance. The homogeneity and high density of the panels provides high resistance to extraction of the fastening elements.
A high percentage of the raw materials used for the production of MEG comes from renewable sources.
A MEG wall cladding offers highly technical and aesthetically pleasing results.
The style can be adapted to different environments and to different customer requirements. MEG clads public and private buildings according to the creativity of the designer, who can draw his own envelope idea and proposing customised cladding.
This technical and robust material is able to express different concepts and geometries every time.
MEG is also suitable for cladding balconies and parapets, details that constitute and complete the entire architecture, allowing these open parts to be characterised with matching colours or contrasting elements.
MEG expresses a strong design character on sunscreen façades and certain elements for transit areas, such as canopies.
The expressive potential of MEG is emphasised with the made-to-measure cut that allows the sunlight to be blocked and to create suggestive shadow effects. MEG, thanks to its compact core, can in fact be lightened with contemporary patterns or others echoing the elegant Mashrabiyas of the Orient. Projects with MEG have no limits and lend themselves to experimentation and endless ideas.
MEG plays with creativity through the use of digital printing technique. Digital printing, in fact, allows any commercial or evocative image to be created, for any façade format or element. Every project consists of a unique characteristic.
MEG consists of 60-70% cellulose fibres obtained from renewable resources, while for the remaining part (30-40%) it consists of thermosetting resins.
Organic solvents, asbestos and heavy metals do not enter into its production process. MEG does not release gases, vapours, solvents or fluids. Due to its high calorific value, MEG also allows energy to be recovered from the incineration of its wastes in specific waste to energy plants.
In addition, MEG has obtained a positive LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), calculated according to the ISO 14040 standard, which is used to determine the environmental impact of the product, taking into account the materials used, the energy consumed and the emissions in all stages of the life of the product itself.
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MEG - Building Facades Collection Overview
MEG - Informative Technical Sheet
MEG - Building Facades Technical Manual
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Greetings Brilliant Transformative Flowers in Bloom!!!!
It is SPRING at the Inspiration Station and we are discovering surprise perennials, witnessing the birth of dreams planted long ago and preparing the soil of our interconnected communities for the future. This update is to let you know how you can participate in the ecology of Broken Beautiful Press and our two major projects. The Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Eduational Series and the Queer Black MobileHomeComing Project. Bloom baby! BLOOM! (p.s. this is a long post...so click here to get directly to the info about self-directed artist residences @ the Inspiration Station and how to become an Eternal Summerian)
The Itinerant Professor: Sista Docta Lex
After 25 years of schooling with no breaks (whew!) Lex and her committee have affirmed her dissertation on the Queer Survival of Black Feminism (click to read the prologue)!!!! Hooray it is SUMMERTIME from now on! Lex is excited to bring her skills, knowledge, reverence, confidence and new swag to support the intellectual visions of educational institutions of all kinds, and community organizations and initiatives. Go to: http://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/lexicon/ to learn about the residencies, workshops and lectures Lex is available for and set up a transformative educational tryst, longer term affair, repeated divine encounter etc with Dr. Lex!
(All proceeds from paid engagements go to support Lex's work on the MobileHomeComing Project and the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.)
Lex and the MobileHomeComing Project are grateful for the support of Queers for Economic Justice, the Disabled Young People's Collective, Public Allies of Cincinnati, the SpiritHouse Choosing Sides Program at New Horizons Academy of Excellence, the American Studies Program at University of Texas-San Antonio, the Women in Learning and Living Program at University of Richmond, the Sexual Assault Task Force at Reed College, the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, the Women's Center and Multicultural Center at Duke University, Holton Community Center for hosting Lex as a speaker/workshop leader and for donating honoraria to the MobileHomeComing Project.
The Inspiration Station: Community Education in Action
This year so far the community educational experiences at the Inspiration Station have been over the top!
Queer Families in Durham played danced, created hallway murals and their own all-ages illustrated intergenerational stories based on the unpublished speeches and out-of-print children's books by June Jordan at the June Jordan Saturday Survival School!
Devoted Durhamites gathered on Sunday mornings to sing the praises and celebrate the words of Audre Lorde, Joseph Beam and Toni Cade Bambara during Queer Black Sunday School.
And Durham's poets and educators (joined by distance learning crews from Chicago, Western Mass, Tuscaloosa, Cairo, Rio Grande Valley, and NYC) deepened the meaning of life with interactive exercises and engagement with the archival and published work of Audre Lorde in the Poetics and Pedagogy units of the School of Our Lorde!
AND our beautiful local community gathered for potlucks to discuss the work of the Salsa Soul Sisters... Here is the audio documentary we created over brunch (Carolyn and Harriet drop knowledge!)the short non-fiction of Maia Williams on the complexity of transnational solidary (with a special guest skype appearance from the esteemed author live and direct fromCairo) and the poetry of asha bandele (deepened by our visiting guest expert on women in prison and resistance: Vikki Law!)
Actualizing Abundance!
Participants in the educational programs and readers of the RAGE Edition of the Little Black (Feminist) Book Series from as far as Berlin, raised and donated $1, 531 towards the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Community School in just 2 months proving that our Beloved Community in Creation VALUES community accountable education.
Become a part of our community sustained educational movement in any of the following ways:
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1979: Transforming the Meaning of Survival
What does it take to survive a year like 1979?
This first podcast is about the year 1979 and how the world, and black feminism began and ended in some crucial ways that year. With the election of Ronald Reagan, the Boston Murders, the Atlanta Child Murders and the Greensboro Massacre all attacking the the lives, minds and spirits of black women 1979 was a crucial year. This podcast focuses on how Audre Lorde, Alexis DeVeaux, June Jordan and Barbara Smith reach(ed) across time and space to transform the meaning of survival. (And there is some good period appropriate and anachronistic music too!)
Be sure to put "1979 podcast and study guide" in the subject line with your donation
Meditate on the Rainbow: The Poetry of Sapphire
Filled with great music…rare and priceless poetry from Sapphire all presented in that quirky, interactive, meditative, writing workshop-esque Eternal Summer style! Based on Sapphire's out of print seven movement poem "Meditations on the Rainbow" this podcast moves us through the colors of resistance and trasnformation.
This podcast is dedicated to all of us, but especially to Tyli'a Nana Boo Mack, a black transwoman made early ancestor in a brutal act of violence in Washington DC. Get your pen and or your paintbrush and listen.
The study-guide brings Sapphire's poetic work into conversation with her book PUSH and the recent film Precious.
Be sure to write "Meditate on the Rainbow Podcast and Study Guide" in the subject line with your donation!
In Your Hands: Mothering Ourselves
Because it takes a whole month to prepare for the day of the dead. Because some of us have to create eclectic Sunday morning rituals to hear our own truth. Because I want you to have this for when you need it. This podcast is based on letters from my black feminist ancestors, and the study guide will lead you through a process of communicating with and remembering insight from your own ancestors, spirit-guides and sheroes. For more about the "In Your Hands" project check out www.motherourselves.wordpress.com.
Be sure to put "In Your Hands Podcast and Study Guide" in the subject line with your donation!
Be Bold Be Red: Legacies of Response to Gendered Violence
In October 2007 women of color came together and transformed terror on Halloween, declaring October 31st Be Bold Be Red Day, a day for women of color and allies to speak out against violence against women. And 30 years ago women of color came together to respond to violence in the same critical and poetic spirit.
Towards the world the we all deserve, fully transformed from the misogyny and internalized racism we face in popular music to the frightening expendability of the lives and bodies of women of color this podcast places the brave voices of women telling the truth about gendered violence over the remixed sounds of Miles Davis by Apple Juice Kid. With this piece which includes critical work on the work of the Combahee River Collective, and Toni Morrison's Sula we take every sound back, starting with our own voices and the background that seeks to silence them.
Listen with your community, your class, your friends, your study group, your church, your crew, pass the link on or listen by yourself and see, hear and wear red.
Be sure to put "Be Bold Be Red" podcast in the subject line with your donation of $15 or more :)
A Revolutionary Act...: On the Legacy of Joseph Beam
In honor of this brilliant Black Gay literary genius ancestor and and the fact that both In the Life and Brother to Brother are back in print thanks to RedBone Press this podcast includes readings and reflections from Lisa Moore of RedBone Press, La Marr Jurelle, Darnell Moore, Justin Smith and a round the kitchen table conversation with some of Durham's most inspiring Black queer visionary men: Ashon Crawley, Sendolo Diaminah, Thaddeaus Edwards and Justin Robinson. (Plus music, love and archival goodies from an ancestor obsessed devotee who you know much too well Informed by archival research in the Schomburg Black Gay and Lesbian Archive, this conversation will be particularly useful as you honor Black Gay History Herstory and discuss the transformative possibility of LOVE in queer community across gender.
Be sure to put "Joseph Beam Podcast and Study Guide" in the subject line of your donation of $15 or more!
Anger is Useful!: On the Poetics of Rage
Who's afraid of the Angry Black Woman? Well BE AFRAID because Angry Black Women are speaking our minds and transforming the world in the service of our vision. Oppression beware the well-directed rage of Black feminism!
Enter the ANGRY BLACK WOMAN edition of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Podcast Series! As always, we start with the brilliance of our ancestors…informed by Audre Lorde's essay "Uses of Anger," meditating on the poetic of rage in June Jordan's angry letters to racist editors and including reflections from Nia Wilson, Mai'a Williams, Moya Bailey, Daria Bannerman and the young visionaries at New Horizon's Alternative School…plus as always music that rocks (including a track from the genuis Jon Anonymous project by Durham's own Shirlette Ammons!)
Be sure to write "Angry Black Woman Podcast and Study Guide" in the subject line with your donation of $15 or more!
"Coming Home": The Legacy of the Salsa Soul Sisters
"because they were coming home."-Carolyn Grey
On Saturday January 30th Harriet Alston and Carolyn Grey brought decades of memories and a Linda Tillery album that Harriet had spent days digitizing through the rare (and unplowed) North Carolina Snow to have a conversation with eager listeners at the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Potluck about their time in the Salsa Soul Sisters and the lessons they learned about building community. Use this podcast as a precedent to your own community building projects or to recontextualize the history of Black feminist, 3rd World Women's and lesbian feminist organizations in the 1970's.
Be sure to write "Salsa Soul Audio Documentary and Study Guide" in the subject line with your donation of $15 or more!
On Cancer and Survival: In Honor of June Jordan, Audre Lorde and Andria Hall
Cancer is a major factor in the lived experience of Black Feminist herstory and legacies. How do we understand survival, the body, love and relationships as we survive and lose our loved ones to cancer? This podcast includes the voices of survivors of cancer, and those who have survived their loved ones. Investigating how life continues and how we can center our wellness, this podcast is memorial and salve, and a call of communication across every boundary, even our understandings of life and death.
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"The Best Way to Do it is to Do it": The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
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If you've been around the PC business for a few years, you may recall the revolution in graphics cards that happened when the first accelerated graphics cards were introduced. Recognizing that displaying complex graphics was a computation-intensive process that didn't interact much with other parts of modern software, these cards included their own microprocessors to take over part of the load from the CPU. The success of this approach can be measured by noting that it's hard to buy a system without such a graphics card today. Now, 3Com (in partnership with Microsoft) is trying to do the same for network operations.
The first fruit of this partnership is the 3CR990 family of network cards, with an integrated processor that 3Com has dubbed the 3XP. For this review I worked with the 10/100 PCI 10BaseT version of the card on a Win2K system. Indeed, if you're not running Win2K, you probably don't want to spend the money on this card. That's because it's designed to work with new APIs in that operating system that allow the CPU to offload two critical networking operations: TCP segmentation and IPSec.
TCP segmentation is a process that goes on whenever a computer wants to send a large data block over TCP/IP. Because Ethernet frames are limited to 1513 bytes, large blocks must be broken up into multiple smaller frames, each with its own header information. The 3CR990 allows the CPU to send the entire block of data to the network card, and then the network card itself handles the segmentation of the data into frames.
IPSec is a standard for TCP/IP security supported by Win2K that encrypts data sent over the network with 168-bit DES. While Win2K can accomplish this entirely within the operating system, it can take a lot of CPU cycles to do so. The 3CR990 implements the DES algorithm in its own firmware, allowing the CPU to just send the data and handling the encryption and decryption on the network card itself. 3Com says that this can lower the CPU load for IPSec by 33 percent. Because the card implements this strong algorithm, it can't be exported outside the U.S.A. and Canada (there's also a 56-bit version that is export-legal).
The card installed easily in my test system, although it required installing drivers after the operating system was installed (this may be because I was using a late beta version of Win2K) rather than as part of the hardware-detection process. Once installed, that was it: no problems whatsoever. Turning on IPSec is as simple as choosing one option in TCP/IP properties, and the card communicates fine with everything else on my network, encrypted or otherwise. At a street price of about $100, this card is worth a serious look by anyone planning a new Win2K-based network who's concerned about data security.
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Yay! Penny and I are over the moon to present our newest pattern set, Parisienne Cafe. It's in the Sew-Ichigo shop now and being added to our Craftsy shop too.
For those of you who have bought our patterns before you will notice a change. The patterns are present as a single unit for you to cut up into sections. The cutting lines are marked with a thick blue line and a scissors icon. This gives you additional flexibility if you want to size the block up and down and it makes the pattern more accurate. It also means that there will be no paper in the seams which I found a lot easier when sewing the blocks together. The patterns are for foundation piecing but can also be traced or printed on to freezer paper if you prefer to piece that wasy.
Are you ready for some close ups?
Starting with 'Espresso Cups' The easiest pattern in the set. Make one, make 4, whatever you like! It's such a fast pattern you can easily make multiples and use different prints and colours.
Followed by 'Coffee Grinder', this is an advanced beginner- lots of straight seams but some small pieces. The 'Cafe' label was made stamping a piece of fabric before adding it to the block. It is the first piece in that section which makes it easier to place precisely- I used a little dab Sewline fabric glue stick to get it exactly where I wanted it. We have a stamping tutorial here.
The 'Tea pot' pattern is another advanced beginner pattern and such an elegant shape! The main fabric is again the first piece of fabric you will add so you can centre motifs and fussy cut patterns to make the most of the slender shape.
And finally, the 'French Press/Cafetiere'. This is an intermediate pattern, mainly because of the size of the pieces. The hardest bit is the feet- but then I always find diagonals need a bit of extra attention! The block is sized at 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" and then strips are added at the sides and top for background and at the base for the 'table' it is sitting on. This makes it easy to make the sizing match common quilt block sizing- 10" square, 12 1/2" square and so on.
We hope you enjoy our new designs, available as a pack in our shop right now! Look out on our blogs for a chance to win a pattern set too!


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The following is a Boeing press release:
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 13, 2006 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has begun flight testing for the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) program and has generated "first light" of ATL's high-energy chemical laser in ground tests, achieving two key milestones in the laser gunship development effort.
During the "low-power" flight tests, which began Oct. 10 and conclude this fall, the ATL ACTD system will find and track ground targets at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. A low-power, solid-state laser will serve as a surrogate for ATL's high-power chemical laser.
To prepare for the tests, the ATL aircraft, a C-130H from the U.S. Air Force 46th Test Wing, was…
outfitted with flight demonstration hardware at Crestview Aerospace Corp. in Crestview, Fla. The hardware includes the beam director and optical control bench, which will direct the laser beam to its target; weapon system consoles, which will display high-resolution imagery and enable the tracking of targets; and sensors.
Boeing fired the high-energy chemical laser for the first time in ground tests on Sept. 21 in Albuquerque, N.M. — an achievement known as "first light." Ground tests of the laser will conclude this fall. By 2007, Boeing will install the device on the aircraft and fire it in-flight at mission-representative ground targets to demonstrate the military utility of high energy-lasers. The test team will fire the laser through a rotating turret that extends through an existing 50-inch-diameter hole in the aircraft's belly.
"ATL will transform the battlefield by giving the warfighter a speed-of-light, precision engagement capability that will reduce collateral damage dramatically," said Pat Shanahan, vice president and general manager of Boeing Missile Defense Systems. "The start of flight and laser testing shows that Boeing is making solid progress toward making this revolutionary capability a reality."
Boeing is developing ATL for the U.S. Department of Defense through an ACTD program.
ATL will destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage, supporting missions on the battlefield and in urban operations. ATL will produce scaleable effects, meaning the weapon operator will be able to select the degree and nature of the damage done to a target by choosing a specific aimpoint and laser shot duration. For example, targeting the fuel tank of a vehicle could result in total destruction of the vehicle, while targeting a tire might result in the vehicle stopping without injury to the driver.
Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser industry team includes L-3 Communications/Brashear, which made the laser turret, and HYTEC, Inc., which made various structural elements of the weapon system.
A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is one of the world's largest space and defense businesses. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $30.8 billion business. It provides network-centric system solutions to its global military, government and commercial customers. It is a leading provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems; the world's largest military aircraft manufacturer; the world's largest satellite manufacturer; a foremost developer of advanced concepts and technologies; a leading provider of space-based communications; the primary systems integrator for U.S. missile defense; NASA's largest contractor; and a global leader in sustainment solutions and launch services.
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One of the world's most celebrated gardens, the creation of Vita Sackville-West and her husband Sir Harold Nicolson. Developed around the surviving parts of an Elizabethan mansion. A series of small, enclosed compartments, intimate in scale and romantic in atmosphere, provide outstanding design and colour through the seasons. (National Trust)For those who have not visited before - a couple of warnings.
- The gardens are both intimate and 'full on' and swamp you with images.
- It can be very difficult if not impossible to find somewhere to sit when the gardens are open to the public.
However there is a solution!
I've now got the the phone number to contact the Sissinghurst Office so that I can arrange to go back on one of the days they are not open to the public. Apparently, on Wednesdays, they are now taking bookings for up to six artists to draw/paint the gardens. You can also use their e-mail address which is on the National Trust website.
Sweet Peas and Red Hot Pokers, Cottage Garden, Sissinghurst
11" x 8", pen and ink and coloured pencil in Daler Rowney sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
I've included two very quick sketches. I was incredibly fortunate and managed to 'bag' "Harold Nicholson's chair" which sits outside the door to the cottage in the Cottage Garden for the first one.
The second sketch was done in the White Garden just before the gardens closed - which is an idyllic time to be in the gardens. The white rose over the central pergola had finished flowering but the rest of the garden was in bloom - but the best positions to draw or paint this can only be taken up when the public are absent.
The statue under the tree, White Garden, Sissinghurst
11" x 8", pen and ink and coloured pencil in Daler Rowney sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
11" x 8", pen and ink and coloured pencil in Daler Rowney sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
- This was a joint post in support of both the Flowers in Art (July 2007) and Gardens in Art (August 2007) projects on Making A Mark - both of which have associated squidoo lenses.
- Similar content previously appeared in a slightly different format on Making A Mark in early August. I've also posted about Sissinghurst before on making A Mark and these posts will also be transferred to this blog so I can create summaries of posts by area. I've included the links to the original posts below as well as details about the garden.


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This is Nao from NIS America, Inc. Today, I'd like to share some exciting news about "Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!" for PSP with all of you.
NIS America has decided to release Badman exclusively on the PlayStation Network on July 16, 2009. The reason we're going this direction is because the demo version of Badman on PSN was so surprisingly well received, and we thought Badman would be the perfect title to test the waters of this download-only release opportunity on PSN. Badman is a relatively small title in terms of download size, and with a PSN release we can provide this title to our fans for only $19.99. We hope that you all are happy with this decision :-)
After the launch of the Badman demo, I noticed that some people were a little confused and struggled with the gameplay. Badman has very simple rules, but it is still very challenging. The first couple of stages will be easy to beat, but it gets tougher as you go forward. So, NIS America has created a strategy sharing forum. You can download a dungeon designer program, and then create your perfect dungeon! (To download the dungeon designer program, simply click on "CREATE A DUNGEON MAP" on the right-hand side of the forum page.)
There are some strategies up already, so please visit the dungeon forum if you need some help from fellow Badman fans! Here is one dungeon I created just for fun. It doesn't help with the strategy, but I just wanted to show how you can make your own dungeon!
When you create the dungeon map, you can export it to a JPG file and save it to your computer. Then e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com or simply click "SUBMIT A DUNGEON MAP" on the right-hand side of the forum page. Don't forget to share your strategies and tips!
I hope you guys can connect and help each other kick those heroes' butts!! :-p
We've also come up with some gameplay footage clips, which can be found on the official Badman website. There is only 1 gameplay clip available so far, but more are on their way!
Here is the first stage clip…
Lastly, the cool people over at PluggnPlay.com are holding a contest for Badman. And they have a pretty nice prize, so I hope you guys can check them out and enter the contest to earn an awesome prize!
These are OMNOM figures, and just one example of the prizes they are offering. These are made from Pixel Blocks. So cute, right?
I hope you all have fun with the contest!
Thank you for reading my post! I'd really love to reply to all of you. But realistically, I cannot do that. But I will try to reply as much as I can, and as soon as I can! So, please don't get mad/frustrated/filled with hate if I don't reply right away… :)
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Syria warplanes raid Damascus province, blackout eases
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Syrian warplanes on Monday launched raids on two towns east of Damascus, a monitoring group said, as a total overnight electricity blackout in the capital began to lift in the morning."Warplanes staged several air strikes on Irbin and Hamuriyeh in Damascus province," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers across the strife-torn country to compile its reports.
The Observatory said that early on Monday the army shelled and deployed new reinforcements to the rebel-held town of Daraya, as part of its bid to quell the insurgency in the outskirts of Damascus once and for all.
The Britain-based watchdog said that violence was reported also on Sunday night when helicopters strafed the town of Tabaqa in Raqa province, in northern Syria, killing eight civilians.
Among the victims were three children aged five, six and eight years old.
Monday's violence came a day after at least 127 people were killed in violence across Syria, including 49 civilians, the watchdog said.
Among the civilians who died on Sunday was a 14-year-old boy tortured to death by regime forces in the southern province of Daraa, said the watchdog, which has reported more than 3,500 child deaths since the outbreak of Syria's revolt in March 2011.
Meanwhile, on Sunday evening Damascus was plunged in a total blackout that lasted through the night, after a key transmission grid that supplies the capital was hit, said the Observatory.
It is unclear what caused the blackout, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman. "Some activists have blamed an air strike." But state news agency SANA blamed "terrorists" for hitting the main transmission station, using the regime's term for rebels.
"The whole city was affected...the situation was strange because it was the first time it ever happened," an anti-regime activist who identified herself as Leena told AFP via the Internet.
By Monday morning, the blackout started to ease, with power gradually returning to the capital, an AFP journalist said.


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Primate culture is just a stone's throw away from human evolution, study finds
For 30 years, scientists have been studying stone-handling behavior in several troops of Japanese macaques to catch a unique glimpse of primate culture. By watching these monkeys acquire and maintain behavioral traditions from generation to generation, the scientists have gained insight into the cultural evolution of humans.
Primatologists Michael A. Huffman, Charmalie A.D. Nahallage, and Jean-Baptiste Leca from the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan assessed social learning exhibited by these macaques during stone-handling, a behavior that has been passed down from elder to younger since it was observed in some of the troops in 1979. Stone-handling, in this study, included rubbing and clacking stones together, pounding them onto hard surfaces, picking them up, and cuddling, carrying, pushing, rolling and throwing them.
The scientists found, for example, that an infant's proximity to their mother had a significant impact on the development of the infant's stone-handling abilities. In other words, infants with mothers who frequently exhibited stone-handling behaviors spent more time with their mother, about 75% of their time, during the first three months of life, and they also participated in stone-handling earlier in life than the other infants. These findings suggest that the mothers' frequent stone-handling caught the infants' attention, and as a result, the infants acquired the behavior more quickly than other infants.
Furthermore, as the primatologists reported in the December 2008 issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, the stone-handling behavior changed with each generation as individual macaques contributed their own patterns of stone-handling, such as stone-throwing.
"The recent emergence of a unique behavior, stone-throwing, may serve to augment the effect of intimidation displays," concluded the authors. "Research on such transformation may shed light on the evolution of stone-tool use in early hominids."
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You don't venture a novel like Infamous, the (somewhat true) story of George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his hand in the botched kidnapping of Oklahoma oil magnate Charles Urschel, unless you're willing to indulge your audience in some of the juice and flash you find in movies and legends about '30s gangsters. The characters in Infamous, particularly Kelly and his spectacularly scheming wife, Kathryn, are a few rungs up the ladder from their hayseed backgrounds, but not yet the slick operators they fancy themselves. George in particular is an affable mug, as happy reading the funnies in his underwear as he is stepping out at a nightspot. In his marriage, he's the turkey and Kathryn is the ax. She loves George, in her way. But you also get the feeling that the man hasn't been born who can stymie her ambition. In the world of Infamous she's an LMILF — the Lady Macbeth you'd like to . . .
Atkins doesn't exactly let it rip in Infamous. A former crime reporter (he was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2001), he's concerned with getting the story right. (Among his sources here is the reporting done on the Urschel kidnapping by papers in Kansas City, Oklahoma City, and Memphis.) That concern has characterized the three novels that preceded Infamous — retellings of the Fatty Arbuckle trial, the '50s conflagration in the notorious Alabama sinpot Phenix City, and the 1955 murder of Tampa crime boss Charlie Wall.
But Atkins loves legend and iconography. His first four novels — featuring the blues-scholar sleuth Nick Travers — were canny tales in which death alone could not hold the spirits of Robert Johnson and James Carr from stalking the land, and in which a crazed killer, who may have been Elvis's dead twin Jesse Garon, roamed Louisiana like a peckerwood Grim Reaper.
Infamous is somewhere between a joyride and a reckoning. You know George isn't smart enough to avoid what's coming. Atkins plays his good-natured criminality against the surefooted movement of the feds. And it's there that you can feel the influence of two books Atkins admires, Elmore Leonard's The Hot Kid and Up in Honey's Room.
The Leonard novels read like an old master's unsentimental return to the stories and images that obsessed him from boyhood. There's no comparable nostalgia in Atkins's book, but there is a shared fascination with the past. And maybe more of the past than Atkins realizes. His good guy here — Gus Jones, an agent in J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, then beginning its consolidation of power — has a background as a Texas Ranger. When Gus takes center stage, you feel the presence of the final days of the American West, with its sense of rough justice, giving way to the bureaucratic mechanisms that will take over as the century progresses. He's a cross between the taciturn upright Western hero and the clean-cut, straight-arrow G Man. And part of the character's appeal is that he doesn't quite believe in Hoover's eagle-eyed oversight. Gus is too smart to feel he's got anything in common with the criminals he's after. But Atkins lets you sense their mutual respect for raising hell, and the dulling order that, like prosperity, is just around the corner.
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2010 Fesler-Moss Chevrolet Camaro Number 1
LS9 soul, 1969 spirit
Since 2000, Scottsdale, AZ-based Chris Fesler and his company Fesler Built has done numerous project and demo vehicles for GM and other car companies. As Fesler once churned out 10-plus SEMA cars every year over a six-year stretch, you could say that he knows a thing or two about building a crowd-wowing, show-stopping machine. When GM brought the new Camaro back in 2010, Fesler's enthusiasm for the popular ponycar resulted in him putting some "what-if" Camaro designs on paper – channeling his penchant for design, he put the ever-popular '69 Camaro's essence here, visualized a body kit there. He eventually settled on a design that had a 1969 flair to it, and was both visually striking and undoubtedly unique. Of course, what separates Chris from the thousands of 16-year-old boys who draw badass cars in study hall is the fact that he actually turned those drawings into the Fesler-Moss Camaro you see here.
Fesler Built not only owns the design patent for this stunning Camaro, the company also makes most of its parts in-house. But this machine is much more than a 5th Gen with a body kit and a Jon Moss licensing deal – the expertly integrated LS9 engine is your first clue. "The LS9 itself is a direct swap into that engine bay," Fesler starts. "The difference is, we use a re-pinned Camaro ECU and re-wired a Camaro wiring harness to work with the engine. And by doing that, we've got almost a complete factory install. "It probably took us about a month to figure out all of the wiring and computer issues so we could do a plug-and-play setup. The learning curve for building a Camaro LS9 was steep – probably the biggest problem we had was getting the paddle shifters to work with the automatic transmission. Other LS9 swaps use the manual trans, which is easy compared to using the auto. Getting the transmission to talk to the motor and the paddle shifters to work right was a pretty good challenge."
This supercharged LS9 has been tweaked to make a bit more than the rated 638 horses. While this beast's internals are all factory stock, the team designed a new air intake that wears an Airaid filter to inhale lots of clean, smooth air. And a highly efficient Magnuson intercooler is charged with keeping the charge air nice and cool. Once the LS9 does its thing, spent gases flow through Fesler 1 7/8-inch headers, feed into a 3-inch collector, go through high-flow cats, and dump into a 3-inch B&B exhaust system. Those additional go-fast goodies are combined with a two-stage, in-tank fuel pump system and a tuned ECU to produce roughly 705 horsepower, and 680 foot-pounds of torque. "We can get a lot more out of it, but we tune it back down to keep it reliable for years," Fesler says. "And really, anything over 700 on the street is just nuts anyway."
While initial auto trans work was done with a 6L80E, once the GMPP 6L90E became available, one was bolted up along with a custom Hughes Performance converter. The Driveshaft Shop supplied a new driveshaft – good for 1,500 horses, and axles – good for 1,000 horses, with only the stock differential between all of that power and an overworked set of Continental ExtremeContact DWS tires. Chris's thoughts on keeping that diff stock: "We haven't put stickies on it yet…and those street tires will definitely spin!"
Fesler-Moss number 1 also sports a serious suspension, as a Pedders Track II kit was installed. Pedders is known for providing just the right parts for sublime handling; in this case, goodies like body and suspension bushings, 27mm sway bars with endlinks, and 30-way-adjustable coilovers. These Pedders parts nix the wheelhop and kill the body roll, while dropping this Camaro's stance a couple inches in the process. Speaking of dropping, a Fesler-branded Baer brake system adds some serious stop to the LS9's go; 15-inch rotors sport 6-piston calipers that clamp down on all four corners, and braided lines and a Baer proportioning valve keep the pedal firm and the stops drama-free.
And no, your eyes aren't deceiving you: if you know those brakes are 15s – how freakin' big are the wheels? The 3-piece Asanti FS-914 rims measure a whopping 22 inches. While hitting potholes would definitely be a bad idea, these rims, when spinning, provide enough wind power to light Scottsdale for a night. Seriously though, the multicolored rollers are 9 inches wide up front, 10.5 inches in the back, and wear Continental ExtremeContact DWS tires that measure 265/30/ZR22 front, 295/25ZR22 rear.
But what really sets the Fesler-Moss Camaro apart is its unique body. This bold design features a wide-look, low, and aggressive front fascia with larger, billet aluminum grilles and billet fog light bezels. And thanks to the suspension drop, the Fesler-Moss's bumper looks like it could headbutt a beetle. Watch those curbs, folks… Redesigned side skirts complement the front fascia, and the stunning rear fascia touts a body-color lower bumper, restyled spoiler, and the best-looking taillights this side of the '69 Camaro. Visually, the finished product is as clean as it is dramatic – a testament to Fesler's innovative design team.
Fesler-Moss number 1 wears 1969 Chevy white paint that, according to Fesler, is "Spiced up with lots of metallic and pearl." Gary Sharp from Prescott Auto Body sprayed it, and then added orange stripes to complete the retro look. In the Camaro's cabin, retro '69 meets edgy contemporary. The Fesler team hunted down some Houndstooth, then Hydro Carboned the rest of the interior to match. The two-knob factory stereo was tossed in favor of a full-display navigation screen that powers a 1,350-watt, 3-subwoofer sound system. Final touches include branded leather seats with special stitching, and touch door handles from Cadillac.
While the dyno runs are the only recorded performance parameters so far, Fesler saw 185 miles an hour on the rollers, and estimates that the modded LS9's grunt and the revised bodywork could put top speeds in the 200-mph range. So, you can see why Chris Fesler is mighty proud of this Fesler-Moss Camaro – and he thinks you'd like it, too.
Engine: LS9, 376 cid, supercharged, 9.1:1 compression, forged rotating assembly, L92-style cylinder heads with 68cc chambers, 2.16 intake/1.59 exhaust valves, .562/.558 lift, 211/230 duration at .050 hydraulic roller camshaft, factory supercharger with Magnuson intercooler, Fesler air intakeFuel System: LS9 56 lb/hr injectors, Fesler dual fuel pump system, 75-plus psi fuel pressure
Engine management: Camaro ECU, modified for LS9/auto trans and tuned by Fesler
Exhaust system: Fesler 1 7/8-inch headers, 3-inch collectors, 3-inch B&B exhaust system
Driveline: 6L90E six-speed auto trans, Hughes Performance converter with custom stall, The Driveshaft Shop driveshaft and axles, 3.73 rear gears
Suspension: Pedders Track II kit, coilovers, bushings, and swaybars, 2-inch drop
Brakes: Fesler/Baer, 15-inch rotors, 6-piston calipers front and rear
Wheels: Asanti FS-914 22x9-inch front, 22x10.5-inch rear
Tires: Continental ExtremeContact DWS 265/30/ZR22 front, 295/25ZR22 rear
HP/TQ: 705 rwhp/680 rwtq
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DUBLIN, Ohio – Matt Kuchar is the 10th player to have Tiger Woods as a partner in the Presidents Cup.
Woods and Kuchar are in the fifth of six matches, taking on Angel Cabrera and Marc Leishman in fourballs. This is the seventh Presidents Cup for Woods, and the second for Kuchar.
International captain Nick Price has put Jason Day and Graham DeLaet in the opening match against Hunter Mahan and Brandt Snedeker.
Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson also have new partners.
Mickelson, the only player to have competed in every Presidents Cup, has Keegan Bradley. That's his 13th partner in this event. Els got his 10th partner in Brendon de Jonge, one of seven rookies on the International team.
It's the first time since 1996 the opening session is fourballs.


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Carrie Underwood and Tony Bennett to Duet at 2012 Grammys
Carrie Underwood and crooner Tony Bennett will be performing a duet together at the 2012 Grammy Awards this year. Fresh off her mashup performance with Steven Tyler, Underwood is teaming up with another amazing vocalist — though not for the first time.
The official Twitter account of the Grammys confirmed the performance today, posting the good news: "This Just In: @itstonybennett & Carrie Underwood 2 perform a duet @ #GRAMMYs on 2/12 8pmET/PT #CBS."
So if you weren't already planning to tune into music's biggest night this coming Sunday, this news should certainly give you a reason to change your mind and plop down on the couch and watch. How could you not want to see the a classic artist collide with a modern one in what is sure to be a show-stopping vocal duet? This could be one for the Grammy history books, country fans.
We're going to make an educated guess here and assume that Underwood and Bennett will offer up their rendition of 'It Had to Be You,' which they handled beautifully on his 'Duets II ' album that came out last fall. Underwood and Bennett certainly make a cute couple, at least professionally speaking.
This is one duet you won't want to miss.


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Mento Floss
By BY
The Mentos-and-soda geyser effect revealed a few months ago has now spawned a contest on YouTube. Eggheads that we are, we figured that to win we'd have to first understand the mechanisms of the explosion -- so we tracked down a science-fair style explanation:
At first glance, it might seem as if a chemical reaction is taking place. Perhaps the Mentos are alkaline and the soda (despite its name) is acidic. That would make the whole thing a variation on my all-time favorite science bit: the baking soda and vinegar volcano. But a quick read of Mentos ingredients reveals precious little alkali... The water molecules in the soda attract each other strongly but equally throughout the Diet Coke when undisturbed by frisky Mentos. This attraction enables the soda makers to pump extra carbon dioxide into the liquid and keeps all the gas from bubbling out immediately because it takes even more extra energy to push the water molecules apart. Dropping a Mentos (or, as in the demonstrations above, a slew of Mentos) into the soda breaks the surface tension in two ways. First, the candy is uneven on a microscopic level. These tiny bumps and pits make it easier for bubbles to form because the surface tension is suddenly spread out over a wider area. ... The makeup of the Mentos is also helping here. Gum arabic--an oily gum derived from the acacia tree--and the coconut oil contribute to the effect by paradoxically making the water molecules even more strongly attracted to one another than usual. Remember, oil and water don't mix.
If you don't have any Mentos handy, you can always enter our stupid-sports contest instead; you've got 27.5 hours left.


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Age of Reason, Part First, Section 5
There is not, throughout the whole book called the Bible, any word that describes to us what we call a poet, nor any word that describes what we call poetry. The case is, that the word prophet, to which latter times have affixed a new idea, was the Bible word for poet, and the word prophesying meant the art of making poetry. It also meant the art of playing poetry to a tune upon any instrument of music.
We read of prophesying with pipes, tabrets, and horns of prophesying with harps, with psalteries, with cymbals, and with every other instrument of music then in fashion. Were we now to speak of prophesying with a fiddle, or with a pipe and tabor, the expression would have no meaning or would appear ridiculous, and to some people contemptuous, because we have changed the meaning of the word.
We are told of Saul being among the prophets, and also that he prophesied; but we are not told what they prophesied, nor what he prophesied. The case is, there was nothing to tell; for these prophets were a company of musicians and poets, and Saul joined in the concert, and this was called prophesying.
The account given of this affair in the book called Samuel is, that Saul met a company of prophets; a whole company of them! coming down with a psaltery, a tabret, a pipe and a harp, and that they prophesied, and that he prophesied with them. But it appears afterward, that Saul prophesied badly; that is, he performed his part badly; for it is said, that an "evil spirit from God"[NOTE 1] came upon Saul, and he prophesied.
Now, were there no other passage in the book called the Bible than this, to demonstrate to us that we have lost the original meaning of the word prophesy, and substituted another meaning in its place, this alone would be sufficient; for it is impossible to use and apply the word prophesy, in the place it is here used and applied, if we give to it the sense which latter times have affixed to it. The manner in which it is here used strips it of all religious meaning, and shows that a man might then be a prophet, or he might prophesy, as he may now be a poet or a musician, without any regard to the morality or immorality of his character. The word was originally a term of science, promiscuously applied to poetry and to music, and not restricted to any subject upon which poetry and music might be exercised.
Deborah and Barak are called prophets, not because they predicted anything, but because they composed the poem or song that bears their name, in celebration of an act already done. David is ranked among the prophets, for he was a musician, and was also reputed to be (though perhaps very erroneously) the author of the Psalms. But Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are not called prophets; it does not appear from any accounts we have that they could either sing, play music, or make poetry.
We are told of the greater and the lesser prophets. They might as well tell us of the greater and the lesser God; for there cannot be degrees in prophesying consistently with its modern sense. But there are degrees in poetry, and therefore the phrase is reconcilable to the case, when we understand by it the greater and the lesser poets.
It is altogether unnecessary, after this, to offer any observations upon what those men, styled prophets, have written. The axe goes at once to the root, by showing that the original meaning of the word has been mistaken and consequently all the inferences that have been drawn from those books, the devotional respect that has been paid to them, and the labored commentaries that have been written upon them, under that mistaken meaning, are not worth disputing about. In many things, however, the writings of the Jewish poets deserve a better fate than that of being bound up, as they now are with the trash that accompanies them, under the abused name of the word of God.
If we permit ourselves to conceive right ideas of things, we must necessarily affix the idea, not only of unchangeableness, but of the utter impossibility of any change taking place, by any means or accident whatever, in that which we would honor with the name of the word of God; and therefore the word of God cannot exist in any written or human language.
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the word of God. The word of God exists in something else.
Did the book called the Bible excel in purity of ideas and expression all the books that are now extant in the world, I would not take it for my rule of faith, as being the word of God, because the possibility would nevertheless exist of my being imposed upon. But when I see throughout the greater part of this book scarcely anything but a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales, I cannot dishonor my Creator by calling it by his name.
Thus much for the Bible; I now go on to the book called the New Testament. The New Testament! that is, the new will, as if there could be two wills of the Creator.
Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life-time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession; and he was the son of God in like manner that every other person is for the Creator is the Father of All.
The first four books, called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, do not give a history of the life of Jesus Christ, but only detached anecdotes of him. It appears from these books that the whole time of his being a preacher was not more than eighteen months; and it was only during this short time that these men became acquainted with him. They make mention of him at the age of twelve years, sitting, they say, among the Jewish doctors, asking and answering them questions. As this was several years before their acquaintance with him began, it is most probable they had this anecdote from his parents. From this time there is no account of him for about sixteen years. Where he lived, or how he employed himself during this interval, is not known. Most probably he was working at his father's trade, which was that of a carpenter. It does not appear that he had any school education, and the probability is, that he could not write, for his parents were extremely poor, as appears from their not being able to pay for a bed when he was born.
It is somewhat curious that the three persons whose names are the most universally recorded, were of very obscure parentage. Moses was a foundling; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver. The first and last of these men were founders of different systems of religion; but Jesus Christ founded no new system. He called men to the practice of moral virtues and the belief of one God. The great trait in his character is philanthropy.
The manner in which he was apprehended shows that he was not much known at that time; and it shows also, that the meetings he then held with his followers were in secret; and that he had given over or suspended preaching publicly. Judas could not otherwise betray him than by giving information where he was, and pointing him out to the officers that went to arrest him; and the reason for employing and paying Judas to do this could arise only from the cause already mentioned, that of his not being much known and living concealed.
The idea of his concealment not only agrees very ill with his reputed divinity, but associates with it something of pusillanimity; and his being betrayed, or in other words, his being apprehended, on the information of one of his followers, shows that he did not intend to be apprehended, and consequently that he did not intend to be crucified.
The Christian Mythologists tell us, that Christ died for the sins of the world, and that he came on purpose to die. Would it not then have been the same if he had died of a fever or of the small-pox, of old age, or of anything else?
As those men who call themselves divines and commentators, are very fond of puzzling one another, I leave them to contest the meaning of the first part of the phrase, that of an evil spirit from God. I keep to my text- I keep to the meaning of the word prophesy.
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BEIJING (AP) — An American business group appealed to China on Tuesday to ease import restrictions on agricultural goods including genetically modified seeds and other biotechnology, highlighting complaints Beijing blocks market access despite its vocal support for free trade. The American Chamber of Commerce in China wants a quicker review of foreign biotechnology products, an end to restrictions on beef and pork imports and other changes. In a report, the group said that could improve the food supply for China's consumers and create new opportunities for Chinese and foreign companies. Chinese leaders have publicly defended free trade in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's promises to restrict imports. But Tuesday's report echoed enduring complaints China is the least open major economy. In a separate segment of the food industry, foreign suppliers are alarmed by Chinese plans to require intensive inspections of imports including low-risk items such as wine and chocolate. The United States, the European Union and other suppliers worry that could disrupt billions of dollars of trade and are lobbying Beijing to scale back its requirement. In agriculture, the American chamber cited areas ranging from genetically modified seeds to grain processing to pork in which imports and foreign competitors are banned or sharply restricted. "There is huge opportunity for foreign business to access the Chinese market and that will really bring the whole industry up," a co-chairman of the chamber's agriculture committee, Yong Gao, told reporters. Foreign suppliers have long complained Beijing uses safety and other regulations to hamper imports of food and farm goods. In biotechnology, the chamber said Chinese approval of imported products takes several times longer than in the United States, Brazil or other countries and the process is slowing down. Regulators approved only one of 18 foreign products under review in a list issued in January. Gao said that was fewer than in recent years. "The industry is extremely disappointed," he said. Beijing lifted an import ban on U.S. beef in October, but producers must wait for individual facilities to be inspected by Chinese regulators before shipments can begin, a process that can take months. |
US Group Seeks Better Access to China's Farm Goods Market
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You can specify variables using defcustom
so that you and
others can then use Emacs's customize
feature to set their
values. (You cannot use customize
to write function
definitions; but you can write defuns
in your .emacs
file. Indeed, you can write any Lisp expression in your .emacs
The customize
feature depends on the defcustom
Although you can use defvar
or setq
for variables that
users set, the defcustom
macro is designed for the job.
You can use your knowledge of defvar
for writing the
first three arguments for defcustom
. The first argument to
is the name of the variable. The second argument is
the variable's initial value, if any; and this value is set only if
the value has not already been set. The third argument is the
The fourth and subsequent arguments to defcustom
specify types
and options; these are not featured in defvar
. (These
arguments are optional.)
Each of these arguments consists of a keyword followed by a value. Each keyword starts with the colon character ':'.
For example, the customizable user option variable
looks like this:
(defcustom text-mode-hook nil "Normal hook run when entering Text mode and many related modes." :type 'hook :options '(turn-on-auto-fill flyspell-mode) :group 'wp)
The name of the variable is text-mode-hook
; it has no default
value; and its documentation string tells you what it does.
The :type
keyword tells Emacs the kind of data to which
should be set and how to display the value in a
Customization buffer.
The :options
keyword specifies a suggested list of values for
the variable. Usually, :options
applies to a hook.
The list is only a suggestion; it is not exclusive; a person who sets
the variable may set it to other values; the list shown following the
keyword is intended to offer convenient choices to a
Finally, the :group
keyword tells the Emacs Customization
command in which group the variable is located. This tells where to
find it.
The defcustom
macro recognizes more than a dozen keywords.
For more information, see Writing Customization
Definitions in The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
Consider text-mode-hook
as an example.
There are two ways to customize this variable. You can use the customization command or write the appropriate expressions yourself.
Using the customization command, you can type:
M-x customize
and find that the group for editing files of text is called "Text".
Enter that group. Text Mode Hook is the first member. You can click
on its various options, such as turn-on-auto-fill
, to set the
values. After you click on the button to
Save for Future Sessions
Emacs will write an expression into your .emacs file. It will look like this:
(custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(text-mode-hook '(turn-on-auto-fill text-mode-hook-identify)))
(The text-mode-hook-identify
function tells
which buffers are in Text mode.
It comes on automatically.)
The custom-set-variables
function works somewhat differently
than a setq
. While I have never learned the differences, I
modify the custom-set-variables
expressions in my .emacs
file by hand: I make the changes in what appears to me to be a
reasonable manner and have not had any problems. Others prefer to use
the Customization command and let Emacs do the work for them.
Another custom-set-…
function is custom-set-faces
This function sets the various font faces. Over time, I have set a
considerable number of faces. Some of the time, I re-set them using
; other times, I simply edit the
expression in my .emacs file itself.
The second way to customize your text-mode-hook
is to set it
yourself in your .emacs file using code that has nothing to do
with the custom-set-…
When you do this, and later use customize
, you will see a
message that says
CHANGED outside Customize; operating on it here may be unreliable.
This message is only a warning. If you click on the button to
Save for Future Sessions
Emacs will write a custom-set-…
expression near the end
of your .emacs file that will be evaluated after your
hand-written expression. It will, therefore, overrule your
hand-written expression. No harm will be done. When you do this,
however, be careful to remember which expression is active; if you
forget, you may confuse yourself.
So long as you remember where the values are set, you will have no trouble. In any event, the values are always set in your initialization file, which is usually called .emacs.
I myself use customize
for hardly anything. Mostly, I write
expressions myself.
Incidentally, to be more complete concerning defines: defsubst
defines an inline function. The syntax is just like that of
. defconst
defines a symbol as a constant. The
intent is that neither programs nor users should ever change a value
set by defconst
. (You can change it; the value set is a
variable; but please do not.)


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Movie To Watch: Monte Carlo
2:28 AMPLOT: "Three young girls (Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy) use their savings for a dream trip to Paris, which turns out to be a big disaster. When they decide to take a break from their lousy tour and sneak into the lobby of a 5-star hotel, one of the girls is mistaken for a spoiled British heiress. Before they get the chance to reveal their true identities, the girls are wrapped up in a whirlwind of paparazzi, couture gowns, storybook romances, sexual fantasies, and living the glamorous life in Monte Carlo."
Monte Carlo is an upcoming American romantic comedy film directed by Tom Bezucha. Nicole Kidman, Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan are producing the film for 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. It began production in Budapest on May 5, 2010.
Monte Carlo stars Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy as three friends posing as wealthy socialites in Monaco.
The film will be released on July 1, 2011. The official trailer was released on April 15, 2011 and was attached to Rio. It features the song "Who Says" from Selena Gomez & the Scene.